Mile by Owner.

What owners actually say about the cars you're considering.

Section 02 · Dispatches

Dispatches

Brand-by-brand verdicts and head-to-heads — what the owner communities actually say.

Alfa Romeo: beautiful cars, bills attached

Alfa Romeo charges you for the styling, then invoices you for the calibration. The Junior is a genuinely good small EV — bestlooking on its platform, efficient, no recalls — with a screen problem and

2 vehicles

BYD: the whole lineup, honestly ranked

BYD is the best argument in the car industry for spending less — eleven models in this research, and nearly every one gives you more hardware per dollar than anything from an established brand. The

11 vehicles

Cadillac: big swagger, small margins

Here's the verdict up front: Cadillac builds cars people feel something about — the Escalade's presence, the Blackwing's thunder, the IQ's 460mile flex — then asks you to tolerate the engineering

5 vehicles

Chevrolet: the honest brand verdict

Here's the verdict up front: Chevrolet in 2026 is two brands stitched together. There's the Chevrolet that built the C8 Corvette — the best performance bargain on Earth — and the Bolt EUV, the

8 vehicles

Dacia: the honest poverty of features

Here's the verdict up front: Dacia is the only car brand whose business model is a sentence — less money, less stuff, and it still works. The Sandero is the cheapest new car in Britain. The Duster is

3 vehicles

Dodge: theater kids with trust issues

Dodge is two stories wearing one badge. The Charger is a muscle car having an identity crisis — the electric version flopped so hard dealers cut $47,000 off the sticker, and the gas version arrived

2 vehicles

Fiat: charm that depreciates, cars that mostly work

Fiat builds cheap cars people genuinely love and software that ships halffinished — the ownership record shows both at once. The electric 500e is the surprise: a 12% firstyear fault rate, realworld

2 vehicles

Ford vs everybody: the honest head-to-head

Here's the verdict up front: Ford builds the hardware America actually wants — the trucks people buy, the V8s nobody else will sell you, the EVs people look back at walking away — and a repair bill

11 vehicles

GAC Aion: the honest brand comparison

GAC Aion is a brand with exactly one car in this research — the Aion Y — and the evidence says as much about the limits of the evidence as about the car. Here is what is documented: a taxiderived

1 vehicles

Geely: two cars, two worlds, one gearbox to respect

Here's the verdict up front: Geely owns Volvo and still can't decide whether it wants to be the fun cheap brand or the premium cheap brand — so it's both at once. The Coolray plays naughty small

3 vehicles

GMC: the honest brand verdict

Here's the verdict up front: GMC is Chevrolet in a better suit, charging more for it. Same T1 and T1XX platforms, same engines, same open federal investigation into the 6.2L V8, same 10speed shudder

3 vehicles

GWM: the discount badge that drives like it

Here's the verdict up front: GWM sells the most car per dollar of any brand in this research, and the driving experience tells you exactly where the savings went. The Haval H6 gives you 90% of a

2 vehicles

Honda vs its rivals: the honest head-to-head

Here's the verdict: Honda is the brand you buy when Toyota's reliability tax feels too high but you're not ready to trust anyone else. The hybrids are excellent, the V6s are the last of a breed. But

9 vehicles

Hongqi: the honest brand comparison

Hongqi sells exactly one car in this research — the EHS9 — and it is both the finest cabin of any Chinese EV here and the most comprehensively failed ownership proposition. Early Norwegian reviewers

1 vehicles

Infiniti: the farewell sale

Let's not pretend. Infiniti is a brand being wound down in slow motion. The QX50 is dead — production ended December 2025, and anything you read about a 2026 redesign is fiction. The QX60 carries 45%

2 vehicles

Jaguar: a ghost brand's two best cars

Jaguar the brand is currently a ghost town between eras: FPace production ended in December 2025, the IPace died in 2024, no new cars are sold in the UK, and the allelectric relaunch has already been

2 vehicles

Jeep: the legend is real, the electrics are the tax

Jeep sells the strongest fantasy in the car business — five models here, and every single one has a version worth buying and a version that will cost you sleep. The gas drivetrains are old soldiers.

5 vehicles

Leapmotor: the honest brand comparison

Leapmotor is the brand the legacy industry is both laughing at and terrified of. The cars are real: a midsize electric SUV a UK owner called "utterly exceptional value" and "faultless so far," and

2 vehicles

Lexus

Lexus is the brand people buy after getting burned once — Germancar refugees who showed up at the store with repair bills. "Reliable" is deserved almost every time, but it's also become a shield for

5 vehicles

Lotus: the best drive nobody can service

Here's the verdict up front: Lotus builds the most exciting hardware in its classes — the fastestcharging production EV on the planet, a 905hp SUV, a midengine coupe with steering the rest of the

3 vehicles

Mini: two charming cars, one identity crisis

Mini's lineup is now a split personality: the Cooper exists as two completely different cars — a Chinesebuilt electric hatch and an Oxfordbuilt petrol one — and the Countryman is a BMW X1 in a

2 vehicles

Mitsubishi: the warranty with a car attached

Mitsubishi doesn't try to win anymore. The Outlander PHEV and the Eclipse Cross don't lead any segment at anything, and Mitsubishi knows it. What the brand does instead is undercut everyone on price

2 vehicles

Nissan vs the world: the discount brand, itemized

Here's the verdict up front: Nissan is the cheapest comfortable seat in every segment it plays in. All eight of its cars undercut their Toyota or Honda rivals by thousands at the window sticker — and

8 vehicles

Ora: the cutest car with the scariest steering

Here's the verdict up front: the Ora 03 is the most likeable electric hatch you can buy and the least finished one. Nothing in its price class has this much personality — bugeyed retro styling, a

1 vehicles

Porsche vs the field: the driver's tax

Here's the verdict up front: Porsche still builds the bestdriving car in every segment it enters, and it charges you three times — at the options desk, at the service counter, and on anything

4 vehicles

Renault: the engineering gamble tax

Here's the verdict up front: Renault builds some of the most likeable cars in Europe and some of the least trustworthy transmissions, often in the same showroom. The Clio, Captur, Austral and Megane

4 vehicles

Roewe: the honest brand comparison

Roewe has exactly one car in this research — the D7 — and it holds a Guinness World Record: 2,208 km on one tank and one charge, across desert, gravel, snow, and ice. It also has zero dealers, zero

1 vehicles

Suzuki: too simple to break, too small to matter

Suzuki's three cars share one superpower: they are too mechanically simple to fail in interesting ways. The Jimny is a ladderframe 4x4 that offroads like a cartoon. The Swift is a 950 kg supermini

3 vehicles

Tesla: the honest brand comparison

Tesla sells five cars, and the ecosystem sells all of them. The Supercharger network plus the software stack is the moat — no rival in this research matches either, and owners say so on every

5 vehicles

Toyota: the default answer, and the fine print

Toyota is the default answer in nearly every segment it contests, and for once the default is mostly right. Thirteen models — the largest brand in this research: halfmillionmile Corollas, a RAV4

13 vehicles

Volvo vs the rivals: the honest brand comparison

Volvo builds cars its owners love more than any rival's — and supports them like it has somewhere else to be. The lineup splits cleanly down the middle. The two oldplatform workhorses, the XC60 and

4 vehicles

BYD vs Tesla: the honest head-to-head

Here's the verdict up front: Tesla sells you the network and the software; BYD sells you more car for less money. And here's the part nobody's marketing department will say: in 2026 they're barely

Head-to-head